Combined glove turning and pressing machine



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ATTORNEY Patented Jun e 9, 1942 COMBINED GLQVE TURNING AND PRESSING MACHINE Louis Brownstein, Brooklyn, N. Y., assigner to Isidor Gerber, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Appiication April 13, 1939, Serial No. 267,553

37 Claims.

This invention relates to a machine for turning gloves from an inside-out-position to a rightside-out-position, while mounting the glove on a glove form on which the glove is heated and from which it is stripped and pressed.

Glove-pressing mechanisms, such as those to which my invention is applied, are disclosed in Patent No. 2,148,403, dated February 21, 1939 and also in my copending'appiication for patent for Glove pressing machine, Serial No. 263,125, filed March 2l, 1939.

The glove pressing mechanism of my said copending application consists generally of a number of glove forms each provided with suitable heating means to maintain the forms hot. The

forms are intermittently rotated. While they are at rest, the operator pulls a glove over the uppermostl form so that the lingers of the glove are properly shaped and stretched on the corresponding ngers of the form while yglove thumb is free of the form.

The glove is maintained in its stretched condition on the hot form for a suicient time to heat it thoroughly and to set it into its proper shape. While the operator is pulling a glove over the empty uppermost form in its proper rightside-out-position, the nger tips of the heated glove on the lowernost form are stripped therefrom by the operation of stripping members carried by the form. At the same time, the glove thumb is pressed against the glove palm by suitable mechanism. The fingertips and thumb of the glove are thereby inserted at the mutilated parts of, and between, a pair of mutilated stripping rollers. As the rollers rotate, the unmutilated parts thereof grip the leading tips of the glove and strip it completely from the form with the thumb thereon in proper position for pressing regardless of the right-hand or left-hand character of the glove. The stripping rollers also press the glove and advance it into the bight of a second pair of stretching rollers which rotate at a higher surface speed than that of the stripping rollers. rihe thus pressed and stretched glove is advanced by the stretching rollers on to a moving belt for discharge from the machine.

Before the glove can be mounted on the form of the pressing mechanism, it must be turned from an inside-out-position to a right-side-outposition, since the glove parts are stitched together in an inside-out-position.

Heretofore separate means necessitating several manual operations have been provided for turning the gloves right-side-out before they are mounted on the pressing forms. This, however,

requires additional operators as well as manipulation of the gloves.

I have noted also that in the pressing mechanism, the forms are inoperative from the time that the glove is stripped therefrom and the time that a glove is mounted thereon for heating purposes. Ii four forms are provided for the pressing mechanism, as is customary, then the forms are idle almost half the time of the machine cycle, thereby reducing the production of the machine and Wasting heat.

My invention therefore contemplates the utilization of the empty form, when in its idle position between the glove stripping position and the next glove mounting position, for the purpose of assisting in the turning of the glove and the mounting thereof automatically on the form. By mounting the glove at the idle station instead of the next station, the manual mounting of the glove is eliminated and the glove remains on the form for a longer period and is more thoroughly heated, or the mechanism can be speeded up for greater production while maintaining the same heating time.

My invention further contemplates the provision of means for turning the glove and simultaneously mounting it on the form for later heating and pressing.

My invention further contemplates the utilization of part of the mechanism for initiating the stripping of the gloves from the forms for the purpose oi' cooperating with other forms for turning the glove and mounting the glove on the forms of the pressing mechanism.

My invention further contemplates the provivion of glove turning forms on which the gloves are successively mounted in inside-cut-position by an operator and of mechanism for automatically removing the gloves from the turning forms and turning the glove and mounting the gloves on the forms of the pressing mechanism Without the aid of' the operator and automatically.

My invention further contemplates the provision of means for turning the lingers and thumb of a glove regardless of its right-hand or lefthand character, and for heating and pressing the entire glove including its thumb.

The various objects of the invention will be clear from the description which follows and from the drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the combined turning and pressing machine.

Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the same, certain parts being broken away to show the underlying structure.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the machine.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged elevation partly in section of the form of the pressing mechanism.

Reference is hereby made to my said cepending application for a full and complete description 'of the pressing mechanism. However, enough of a description thereof will now be given so that the cooperation thereof with parts of the turning mechanism to complete the automatic transfer of the glove in an inside-out-position from the turning mechanism to a right-side-outposition on the forms of the pressing mechanism may readily be understood. v

The pressing mechanism comprises a plurality of forms as II), each provided with an electrically operated heating element, and mounted for intermittent rotation on the shaft I I. Said shaft is provided with a Geneva wheel I2 into the slots I3 of which the Geneva pin I4 moves at regular intervals. Said pin is carried by a Geneva disc mountedat one end of a shaft I5 which is directly under and substantially parallel to the shaft II. At the other end of the shaft I5 is the bevel gear I meshing with the bevel gear I'I on the shaft I8, the latter shaft being the driving shaft of the reduction gear unit I9. The driven shaft of said unit carries the pulley 2t operated through the belt 2| by the motor pulley 22 of the 'motor 23. Continuous rotation of the motor, therefore, rotates the forms lil intermittently about the shaft II.

The forms III contain elements which perform not only the initial stripping function described in my said copending application but also cooperate With the forms 24 of the turning mechanism to turn the glove. Said forms 24 are mounted similarly to the forms II) of the pressing mechanism and are similarly operated and are coplanar therewith. The forms 24 extend radially from the shaft 25 on which is mounted the Geneva wheel 25. Said Geneva wheel is operated by the Geneva disc 21 and the Geneva pin 28. The disc 21 is carried by and at one end of the shaft 29 while at the other end of said shaf t is the bevel gear 3Q meshing with the bevel gear SI on the shaft I8. It will thus be seen that on operation of the motor, the forms Il and 24 are intermittently operated in unison with each other and about parallel spa-ced axes and that when the forms 24 are at rest, the forms It are also at rest. Consequently, one of the forms 24 will be in coaxial and coplanar alignment with one of the forms II) during each rest period, the machine being properly proportioned and timed for this purpose.

Referring now to Fig. 4, it will be seen that the form I0 is a four-finger form having no thumb. The form is in many respects similar to the form shown in said Patent No. 2,148,403, but differs therefrom in the particular that the rods which are carried by the form and which serve to initiate the stripping of the glove also perform the additional function of cooperating with an aligned form 24 to initiate the turning of the glove. One rod is provided for each finger, there being, consequently, four such rods 35, 36, 3l, 33 (Fig. 4). The rods are all loosely inserted through the connecting member 39 from which extends the rod-operating connecting member 40.

At the inner end of the member lil is provided the laterally extending shaft 4I carrying the roller 42, said shaft projecting through a suitable slot 43 in the removable cover plate 44. Behind the cover plate is the heating compartthrough the fingers.

ment 45 of the glove form which communicates with the hollow fingers 45, 4l, 48, 49 in which the rods 35, 35, 3l and 33 are respectively mounted. A suitable electric heater 59, not shown in detail but of a well-lknown type, is mounted in the compartment 45 and is energized by the electric wires 5I, 52 receiving current from the commutator rings on the commutator 53. Said commutator is mounted at one end of the shaft II and the rings thereof are energized by the contact members 54, which receive current from suitable wires electrically connected thereto.

Each of the rods 35 to 33 is provided with a head as 5S at the inner end thereof, abutting against the inner edge of the member 3). Inferposed between the outer edge of said member and a suitable collar as 5l' fixed to each rod and shown particularly in connection with the rod as 36, is a spring 53. Said spring urges the rod outwardly relatively to the form finger thereby normally bringing the head or stop 55 of the rod into abutment with said member. In the innermost position of the rods, the outer end as 59 of the rod is iiush with and forms a continuation of the outer surface of the finger in which it is mounted.

It will be noted that the collar 6I) for the rod 33 is set at a different distance from the member 39 than the distance between the collar 5l and said member. Similarly, the collars on the rods 35 and 3'! may be differently set or in a different spaced relation from the ends of the `corresponding ngers so that said rods may be projected different distances outwardly beyond the forms as will be seen, for example, from Fig. 1. The respective collars 51 and 6I! and the collars on the rods 35 and 37 determine the maximum respective distances which the rods may be projected beyond the form. Said maximum distance is determined by the contact of the collar with the shoulder as @I of the inset piece 62 forming the tip of the glove finger 4'! and corresponding similar inset pieces having similar shoulders for the remaining fingers.

It will be seen from Fig. 4 that when the shaft 4I is moved outwardly the member 39 is similarly moved outwardly and projects the respective rods 3l to 38 beyond the form, while compressing the springs acting `on the respective collars, until the collars engage the shoulders 6I. Further movement of the member 39 serves thereafter only to compress the springs 58 without projecting the rods any further On the inward movement of the shaft Il I, the member 39 is correspondingly moved inwardly thereby sliding along the rods and releasing the compression of the springs 5S, said member 39. moving along the rods until it engages one or more of the headed stops 56 of said rods, whereupon the rods are withdrawn into the form inwardly until the ends 55E thereof are again flush with the fingertips of the form.

Means are provided for operating the shaft 4I different distances at different stations of the glove form III. In the lowermost position of the form lil, the cam 65 on the shaft 86 serves to operate the crank l, and the shaft 68 on which it is mounted. On said shaft is carried the roller-operating crank 69, spring pulled by the spring 'III in the proper direction to maintain the member 68 in contact with the cam 65. At the free end of the crank 6! is provided the U-shaped member 'II into the groove of which the roller 42 enters when the form III is in its lowermost position. After it has reached, said position, the cam 65 serves to operate the crank 69 in a counterclockwise direction, as viewed in Fig. 1 to move the roller outwardly and thereby to project the rods 35 to 38 outwardly beyond the form or downwardly as viewed in Fig. 1. Such movement of the rods is less than the maximum movement thereofv and less than enough to carry the collars 51, 60Y into engagement with the shoulders 6 I. The rods thus projected initiate the stripping of the glove from the form I and insert the ngertips of the glove in between the mutilated rollers 12, 13.

The mutilated parts of said rollers are in. an adjacent position when said rods are operated as above described. Said rollers, however, are con tinuously rotated and during their rotation, while the forms I0 are at rest, engage the partially stripped fingertips of the glove and complete the stripping action, forwarding the glove into the bight of the stretching rollers 14, which cooperate with the rollers 12, 13 to stretch the glove and thereafter by means of the belt 16, forward the thus pressed and stretched glove for discharge from the machine.

Means are also provided in connection with the pressing mechanism to insure the proper positioning and pressing of the thumb 11 of the glove regardless of whether the -glove is a right-hand glove or a left-hand glove. Said means comprises the oscillatory plates 18, 19 (Fig. 3). The plate 18 is pivotally mounted on the bell-crank lever 80 while the plate 19 is similarly mounted on the bell-crank lever` 8|. A rod 82 connecting said levers is in turn operated by the crank 83 pivoted as at 84 and having a roller 85 operated by the cam 86 on the roller shaft 81. Said plates 18, 19 engage the thumb 11 and press said thumb flat against the palm of the glove preparatory to the stripping of the glove from the form by the rollers 12, 13. The rollers 12, 1'3 and 14', 15, the cam shaft 66 and the shaft I8 are all driven by a single chain 9i) which engages suitable sprocket wheels on the roller shafts as well as a sprocket wheel on the cam shaft 66, a sprocket wheel 9| on the drive shaft I8 of the reduction gear unit and an idle sprocket wheel 92 (Fig. 3).

The above described stripping and pressing mechanism is substantially identical with that shown in my said copending application so that the details of the mounting of the various parts and the details of their operation need not be described more fully.

Referring now to the turning mechanism, and particularly to the forms 24, each 0f said forms is hollow and comprises four hollow open end fingers as I 00 and two hollow open end thumbs as IOI, |02, one of said thumbs as |02 being arranged adjacent one face as I 05 of the form 24 and the other thumb |0I being arranged adjacent the other face |01 of said form, the thumbs being opposite each other so that either a right-hand glove or a left-hand glove may be mounted on the form. It will be seen from Fig. 2 that each of the thumbs IOI, |02 is supported in spaced relation to the adjacent face of the form by means of an extension as |03 joined to a lowermost part of the form as |04. The thumb IBI receives the thumb of a rightMhand glove while the back of the glove becomes arranged between the space between the thumb |02 and the face |05 of the form. Similarly, the thumb of a lefthand glove is inserted on the form thumb |02 while the back of the glovey enters the space |06 between the thumb II and the other face |01 of the form.

Referring to Fig. l, it will be seen that the fingers of the extreme left-hand form I0 are in coplanar alignment with the corresponding ngers |00 of the right-hand form 24, the longest fingers of said forms being quite close to but not in contact with each other. In this position of the forms, a glove having been mounted on the form 24' when it was in its uppermost position, said form is adjacent to and in coaxial alignment with an empty form I0. In this position, the rods 34 to 38 of the form I0 are operated to project them into the hollow ngers |00 of the form 24. The means for accomplishing such projec tion comprises the crank |08 terminatingv in the U-shaped member |09 at its free end and pivoted at lits other end on the shaft I I0. Said shaft carries the crank II I which engages the cam I|2 on the cam shaft 66 and is operated thereby at the proper time. At such time, the shaft ||0 is moved in a counterclockwise direction to cause the roller 42, which has entered between the anges of the U-shaped member |09, to move toward the left. Such movement of the roller causes movement of the shaft 4| outwardly in the slot 43 and causes outward movement of the member 39 to the limit permitted by the slot 43. This causes the rods to 38 to move until the stops as 51 and 60 thereof engage the shoulders 6I 0f the members 62 of the corresponding fingers, thereby projecting said rods to their maximumextent and causing said rods to engage the fingertips of the glove on the form 24 and to push said fingertips into the interior of the hollow fingers |00 while at the same time moving the entire glove outwardly of the form 24. The turning 0f the glove which has been mounted on the form 24 in its inside-out-position is thereby begun.

While the turning of the glove is thus initiated, the turning of the thumb of the glove is alsoY initiated. This is accomplished by the simultanecusly acting thumb-turning stretching and heating members II3, II4, the former of which is in alignment with the thumb |02 and the latter of which is in alignment with the thumb I0| of the form 24 when said form reaches its glove-turning position. The members 3, ||4 are operated in unison so that the thumb of a glove may be turned whether it is a right-hand or a left-hand glove. Extensions as I I5, H6, respectively, on the thumb-turning members I I3, ||4 are slidably mounted at their right-hand ends as viewed in Fig. 2 on suitable brackets as I I1, I I8. The members II3, II4 are further supported by and xed to the loop I I9 which is shaped to clear the forms I0 in its horizontal reciprocatory movement and during the corresponding movement of the thumb-turning members. The members I I3 and II4 are preferably heated so that they may be retracted from the glove thumb after the turning operation has been completed. Such heating is accomplished by a heating element in each of the members energized by suitable fiexible electric ends.

Reciprocatory movement of the loop |I9 is ef fected by the rack |20 which is connected to the loop by the member |2| (Fig. 3) and which is;v

reciprocated by the gear segment |22 mountedl on the shaft I 23. Said segment engages the rack and is operated by the pinion |24 on the shaft |23, which pinion engages the gear or gear segment |25 on the shaft |26. Oscillation of the shaft |26 may be effected at the proper time by any suitable means, there being shown for this purpose the crank |2`| mounted on the shaft |26 and terminating in a cam roller |28 operating in a cam groove |29 of the cam |36 on the shaft |3|. Said cam is suitably proportioned and shaped to project the thumb-turning members ||3 and ||4 into the thumbs |02 and ||1| respectively when all the forms are at rest. Such projection of the thumb-turning members into a thumb of the form 24 initiates the turning of the thumb in substantially the same manner as the turning of the fingers of the glove is initiated by the rods 35 to 38.

Means are also provided for sliding the inner part of the glove, that is, the wrist portion thereof, outwardly of the form 24 and on to the form i to complete the turning of the glove and to accomplish the mounting of the glove on said form I0. Said means comprises the opposed hookshaped turning members |33, |34 (Fig. 2) preferably of spring material and terminating in hooks contacting with the respective faces |65 and H31 oi the form 24 below the open inner edge or wrist edge of the glove when said form is in the turning position. The form assumes a position between the turning members as it is rotated to a rest position in alignment with the form IU, said members yielding, if necessary, for that purpose and being suitably spaced apart. At the time or immediately after the rods 35 to 38 have been projected to initiate the turning of the glove fingers, the hooks |33 and |34 are moved toward the right as viewed in Figs. 2 and 3 to strip the glove from the form 24 and to turn the glove on to the adjacent form I0. Said movement is effected by the slide |35 on which said hooks are mounted, said slide operating in the guideways |36, |31. The pin |38 (Fig. 1) of said slide enters the groove |39 of the lever |40 which is pivoted at its lower end as at |4I. A suitable roller |42 on said lever engages the cam |43 on the shaft |44, the lever being spring pulled by the spring |45 to maintain the roller |42 in contact with the cam |43. The chain |46 passing around a suitable sprocket wheel on the shaft 29 also passes around a sprocket wheel on the shaft |3| and a sprocket wheel on the shaft |44 to rotate said shafts in unison and in proper timed relation.

It will be seen that as the turning yof the glove on the form 24 is initiated by the rods 35 to 38 and by the thumb-turning members ||3 and H4, the slide |35 is operated by the lever |40 to carry said slide toward the right thereby causing the hooks |33 and |34 to enter the open end of the glove and to engage the edge of the glove adjacent said open end and to move the glove toward the right, whereby the glove is reversed at the same time that the glove fingers are mounted on the fingers 46 to 45 of the form 0 in their rightside-out-position, the wrist portion of the glove finally becoming mounted on the wrist portion of the form I in its right-side-out-position.

While the turning of the glove is thus progressing, operation of the segment |22 in the opposite direction carries the thumb-turning members |l3 and ||4 in synchronism with the slide 35 toward the right a suicient distance rst to move the glove thumb into its proper relation to the remainder of the glove and then to retract the members from the completely turned thumb, such retraction being easily accomplished because of the heated condition of said members. The slide is also carried back to its initial position toward the left and in position to arrange the hook members in place to receive between them the next form 24.

The glove thus turned on the form I6 is heated by the heating element so that the heating of the glove is continued for three-quarters of a turn or until the form on which it is mounted reaches its lowermost position ready for the stripping and the pressing operations, the thumb being heated for a lesser time suiiicient, however, to permit its proper stretching and pressing.

In practice, the operator mounts the glove on the uppermost form 24 in an inside-out-position and continues to mount the glove in such positions on succeeding forms 24 as they successively reach said uppermost positions. At the next station of the forms 24 after the mounting station, the turning of the glove ngers and thumb is initiated by the rods of the form l0 and by the thumb-turning members H3, H4, which are withdrawn from lthe glove thumb after it has been turned, the turning operation being completed by the hooks |33, |34, the glove thus being mounted on the adjacent form I6. The glove is heated and carried into its next station while the next empty form I@ comes into position wherein a glove is turned and mounted thereon. The form carrying a mounted glove passes its uppermost station and its right-hand station, and reaches the bottom station where the stripping of the glove is initiated by the rods 35 to 38 which are at this time, however, projected less than the maximum amount, said amount being determined by the cam 65. 'I'he mutilated rollers then grip the glove, after the plates 7S, '19 have folded the thumb against the palm, and press the heated glove, forwarding it to the stretching rollers which stretch the glove and pass it to the discharge belt 16.

It will be seen that I have provided a comparatively simple automatic machine, wherein the operator merely mounts gloves in an inside-outposition successively on intermittently rotating forms and the machine automatically turns the iingers, thumb and the remainder of the glove and heats, presses and discharges the glove.

While I have shown and described certain specic embodiments of my invention, I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, but intend to claim the invention as broadly as may be permitted by the state of the prior art and the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a rst intermittently rotatable form,rods slidable in and beyond said form, a second hollow form adapted to have a glove mounted thereon in inside-out-position, means for projecting the rods from the Iirst form into the hollow form to initiate the turning of a glove when said forms are in alignment, and means for sliding the glove from the hollow form on to the first form to complete the turning of the glove and to mount the glove in right-side-out-position on the rst form.

2. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a rst intermittently rotatable form, rods slidable in and beyond said form, a second hollow form adapted to have a glove mounted thereon in inside-out-position, means for projecting the rods from the first form into the hollow form to initiate the turning of a glove when said forms are in alignment, means for sliding the glove from the hollow form on to the first formv to complete the turning of the glove and to mount the glove in right-side-out-position on the first form, and means for projecting said rods from the first form to initiate the stripping of the glove therefrom.

3. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a plurality of heating forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms about a common axis, a plurality of hollow forms each having four hollow fingers open at the outer ends thereof and each having a thumb, means carried by the heating forms to fold the fingertips of a glove into the fingers of the hollow form when the heating form is aligned with the hollow form, means for folding the thumb of a glove on the hollow form into the thumb of said hollow form, a slide member provided with means to move the glove fingers from the hollow form to the heating form and simultaneously to turn the glove and also to mount the thumb on to said thumb-folding means, `and means for stripping the glove from the heating form and pressing the glove.

4. In a machine of the character described, a hollow form for the reception of a glove in insideout-position comprising four hollow fingers and a thumb, a heating form having four hollow iingers and a movable rod within each of the fingers of the heating form, said rod being projectable beyond the heating form and into the corresponding iinger of the hollow form.

.5. In a machine of the character described, a pair of hollow forms each having iingers movable into alignment with the corresponding iingers of the other form, means` for initiating the turning of a glove on one form while the forms are at rest, said means comprising longitudinally slidable rods in the lingers of one form and means for sliding the rods beyond said one form and into the fingers of the other form, and means for engaging the open end of the glove on said other form and moving said open end toward and on to said one form.

6. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms each having hollow fingers, a heating element in one of the forms, and a plurality of elongated members slidable through the hollow iingers of said one of the forms and into the corresponding hollow fingers of the other form.

7. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a pair of 4'forms each having hollow fingers, means for intermittently rotating the respective forms about parallel spaced axes to carry the forms into a position wherein the corresponding 4fingers thereof are in alignment and the forms are at rest, and a plurality of elongated members in one of the forms slidable through the fingers thereof and into the corresponding fingers of the other form while said forms are at rest.

8. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a glove form having hollow fingers, rods slidable in and through thefree ends of the fingers, a longitudinally movable connecting member for the inner ends of the rods, said rods passing loosely through the member and each having a stop `arranged inwardly of the member, and a spring for each of the rods urging the rod outwardly of the member.

9. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a glove form, rods carried by the form and slidable longitudinally therein, means operative at one time for projecting the outer parts of the rods beyond the form a predetermined distance to initiate the stripping of a glove from the form, and

means operative at another time for projecting said outer parts of the rods beyond the form a greater distance and into a hollow glove-carrying form to initiate the turning of a glove.

10. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a hollow form for the reception of a glove in inside-out-position, a glove heating form, means for moving said forms into coplanar alignment with each other, rods carried by and slidable in the heating form, means operative at one time for projecting the outer parts of the rods beyond the heating form to initiate the stripping of the glove from the heating form, means operative at another time for similarly projecting said rods into the hollow form to initiate the turning of a glove mounted on the hollow form, and reciprocating means movable into engagement with the open end of a glove on the hollow form to complete the turning of the glove and to mount the glove in turned position on the heating form.

11. In a machine of the character described, a hollow form for the reception of a glove in inside-out-position, a heating form, means for moving said forms into coplanar alignment, means for continuously heating the heating form, means carried by the heating form and cooperating with the hollow form to initiate the turning of a glove on the hollow form and also to initiate the stripping of a glove from the heating form, means for completing the turning of the glove and for also mounting the turned glove on the heating form, and means for completing the stripping of the glove from the heating form and for also pressing said glove.

12. In a machine of the character desribed, a pair of forms, means for continuously heating one of the forms, means carried by the heated form and cooperating with the other form for turning a `glove mounted on said other form and for mounting the turned glove on the heated form, said means being operable partly to strip the turned glove from the heated form, and mea-ns to complete the stripping of the glove from the heated form and to press the glove.

1 3, In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means carried by one of the forms and cooperating with the other form to turn the fingers and the thumb of a glove mounted in inside-out-position on said other form, and means to mount the glove in right-side-out-position on said one form, said iirst-mentioned means ,including reciprocating members and means to project said members beyond said one form.

1.4. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means carried by one of the forms and cooperating with the other form to turn the ngers and the thumb of a glove mounted in yinside-out-position on said other form, and means to mount the giove in right-side-out-position on said one form, said nist-mentioned means in.- cluding reciprocating members and means to project said members beyond said one form, and said second-mentioned means including a s lide and glove-engaging members carried by the slide.

15. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means carried by one of the forms and cooperating with the other form to turn the fingers and the thumb of a glove mounted in inside-out-position on said other form, and means to mount the glove in right-side-out-position on saidone `form, meansfor operatingsaid mst-mentioned means to initiate the stripping of a glove from said one form and means for completing the stripping and for pressing the glove.

16. In a machine of the character described, a pair of glove forms each having hollow ngers, means for turning a glove mounted in inside-outposition on one of the forms and for mounting the glove in right-side-out-position on the other form, said means including rods slidable in the fingers of said other form into the fingers of said one form and means for stripping the glove from said other form and for pressing the glove.

17. In a machine of the character described, a pair of glove forms, one of said forms having four fingers and a thumb, and the other of the forms having four fingers, means for turning the iingers and thumb of a glove mounted in insideout-position on said one form and for mounting the fingers of the glove on said other form, means retractible from the glove thumb and associated with said other form for receiving the thumb of the glove and for cooperating with said gloveturning means to turn the thumb of the glove, and means for pressing the glove thumb against the glove palm after said retractible means has been withdrawn from the glove thumb.

18. In a machine of the character described, means for turning the fingers of a glove from inside-out-position to right-side-out-position, means for turning the thumb of the glove including a thumb heating member, a form receivu ing the turned glove, means within the form for heating the glove, and means for stripping the heated glove from the form and for pressing the glove.

19. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means for intermittently rotating the forms about spaced parallel axes to carry said forms into alignment, means for turning the thumb of a glove mounted in inside-out position on one of the forms, said means comprising a hollow thumb and a cooperating reciprocating member movable independently of the glove forms from a position inside of the thumb to a position adjacent the other form, means carried by said other form for turning the ngers of the glove, means for mounting the glove in turned position on said other form, means for withdrawing the member from the thumb to free the glove thumb, and means for pressing said glove thumb against said other form.

20. In a machine of the character described, a pair of glove forms, one of said forms having a thumb, means for turning a glove mounted in inside-out position on said one form and for mounting the turned glove on the other form, a reciprocating member movable into the thumb to turn the glove thumb and movable with the glove on the turning of the glove by said turning means to a position adjacent said other form, means for withdrawing the member from the glove thumb, and means for thereafter pressing the glove thumb.

2l. In a machine of the character described, a pair of intermittently rotatable glove forms one having a thumb, means for turning a glove mounted on said one form and for mounting the glove on the other form, means movable independently of the forms and withdrawable from the glove thumb for turning the glove thumb, and means for pressing the glove thumb.

'22. In a machine of the character described, a pair of glove forms one having a thumb, means .for turning a glove mounted on said one Vform and for mounting the glove on the other form, means movable into and withdrawable from the glove thumb for initiating the turning the glove thumb, and means for reciprocating said last-V mentioned means independently of the forms.

23. In a machine of the character described, a pair of relatively movable glove forms, means carried by and movable relatively to the forms for turning the nngers of a glove mounted on one of the forms, means movable relatively to the forms for turning the thumb of the glove, and means for mounting the turned glove on the other form with the thumb of the glove free of the forms and of said thumb turning means 24. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means for intermittently rotating the forms about spaced parallel axes to carry the forms into and out of alignment, means movable relatively to the forms and movable into one form to initiate the turning of the fingers and thumb of a glove while the forms are at rest, and means arranged to engage the wrist portion of the glove while the forms are at rest and in alignment to complete the turning of the glove and to mount the glove in turned position on the other form.

25. In a glove turning and pressing machine,

a glove form having iingers adapted to receive the finger tips of a glove, means for tuoking the nger tips of the glove into the fingers of the glove form to initiate turning of the glove, a heating form, means for intermittently rotating the respective forms about parallel spaced axes to carry the forms into a position wherein the corresponding fingers thereof are in alignment and the forms are at rest, and means including a reciprocating slide for engaging the wrist end of the glove on the glove form and for moving said end toward and on to said heating form to complete the turning of the glove and to mount the glove on said heating form.

26. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a plurality of heating forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms about a common axis, a plurality of glove forms each adapted to have a glove in inside-out-position mounted thereon, means for moving the glove forms successively into alignment with a heating form, a reciprocatory member provided with means to turn the glove and also to remove it from the glove form and to mount the turned glove on a heating form when said glove form and heating form are in alignment, and means for stripping the turned glove from the heating form and for pressing the glove.

27. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a plurality of heating forms, means for intermittently rotating said forms about a common axis', a plurality of glove forms each adapted to have a glove in inside-out-position mounted `thereon, a reciprocatory member provided with means to remove and turn a glove which has been mounted on one of the glove forms and also to mount the glove on a heating form, Vand means for stripping the glove from the heating form and for pressing the glove.

28. In a glove turning and pressing machine, a pair of forms each having ngers and each rotatable into and out of alignment with the corresponding fingers of the other form, means adapted to enter the lingers of one form for initiating the turning of a glove on said one form while said form is at rest, and reciprocatory means movable from Vthe outer end part of said one form to the Vouter end part of the other form for engaging the open end of the glove on said one form and for moving said open end toward and on to the other form.

29. In a machine of the character described, a pair of forms, means for moving said forms into and out of alignment, means for continuously heating one of the forms, means cooperating with the other form for initiating the turning of a glove mounted on said other form, means for completing the turning of the glove and for mounting the turned glove on the heated form, and means to strip the glove from the heated form and to press the glove.

30. In a machine of the character described, a pair of glove-holding forms, means for moving said forms relatively to each other, means for turning a glove mounted on one form and for mounting the glove in turned position on the other form, and movable means for engaging the turned glove and for stripping the turned glove from said other form and for also pressing the glove, said movable means including a pair of cooperating rollers.

31. In a machine of the character described, means for turning a glove and for simultaneously mounting the glove on a form, a form receiving the turned glove, means for moving the form into position to receive the turned glove, and means for stripping the turned glove from the form and for pressing the glove, said stripping and pressing means including a pair of cooperating rollers.

32. A combined glove turning and pressing machine comprising a pair of relatively movable glove forms, means for turning a glove mounted in inside-out-position on one form and for mounting the glove in right-side-out-position on the other form, and movable means for engaging and stripping the glove from said other form and for also pressing the glove.

33. In a machine of the character described, a series of intermittently movable forms, means for turning a glove mounted on one form and for mounting the turned glove on another form, means for heating the turned glove on a third form, and means for stripping a heated glove from a fourth form and for pressing the heated glove, all of said means operating simultaneously and while the forms are at rest.

34. In a machine of the character described, a rst series of heated forms movable as a unit, a second series of unheated forms movable as a unit relatively to the rst series to carry an unheated form into alignment with a heated form, means for turning a glove mounted on a selected unheated form and for mounting the turned glove on a selected heated form when said selected unheated form and heated form are in alignment, and means for stripping a glove from a different heated form other than said selected heated form-and for pressing the glove, all oi" said means operating simultaneously.

35. In a machine of the character described, a rst glove-carrying form, a series of additional forms constituting second, third and fourth forms movable as a unit relatively to the first form to carry the forms of said series to a number of successive stations, means for operating upon a glove mounted in inside-out position on said rst form to turn the glove and to mount the turned glove on said second form at a given station, means to heat a turned glove mounted on said third form while said third form is at another station, and means to strip a heated glove from said fourth form at a third station, all of said means operating simultaneously.

36. In a machine of the character described, a rst glove-carrying form, a series of glove heating forms movable as a unit relatively to said first form, means for turning a glove mounted on said rst form and for mounting the turned glove on a heating form, and means for simultaneously stripping a turned and heated glove from another of the heating forms.

37. In a machine of the character described, a rst glove-carrying form, a series of glove heating forms movable as a unit relatively to said rst form, means for turning a glove mounted on `said rst form and for mounting the turned glove on a heating form, means for simultaneously stripping a turned and heated glove from another of the heating forms, and means for pressing the stripped glove.

LOUIS BROWN STEIN. 

